The sky was dim and the air was hot and dry. The big sun hung high in the middle of the sky like a furnace. A rolling heat wave swept across the sky and the earth, and the air was seen rolling in the void like boiling water.
Above the earth is thousands of miles of red land. As far as the eye can see, there are patches of dry and cracked loess. The scorching waves sweep past, as if they have brought up waves of fire. Every particle of dust rolled up seems to be red-hot. Grains of sand are extremely uncomfortable to be in.
At this moment, a group of hundreds of people walked step by step on the dry and cracked ground, staggering forward with difficulty.
Their clothes were in rags, their skin was burnt black and red by the sun, and their hungry-yellow faces were filled with hopeless eyes.
Suddenly there was a slight commotion in the crowd, and a middle-aged woman at the end of the crowd was seen lying on her back. Hundreds of people immediately heard the wind and surrounded the woman who was lying on her back.
It's just that they were not looking after the woman, but showed excitement on their hungry faces. Looking at the dying companion, their eyes were full of hope and greed.
A little girl threw herself on the woman's body and screamed, "Mother..."
The woman was dying, so she raised her hand with difficulty and gently stroked the girl's gray-stained face twice, "Baby, my mother can't hold it anymore. You have to be strong and you must get out of here alive."
"No! Mom! You come with me, let's go together."
After saying that, the little girl tried to help the woman up, but she was too young and could not help the woman up after several attempts, until she finally gave up helplessly.
The woman's face was stained with pain, but she forced a smile when facing the little girl.
"You have to live a good life. Mother Lu can't accompany you anymore in the future."
The woman's words stopped suddenly, and the hand caressing the girl dropped weakly.
The girl's eyes suddenly widened, she threw herself on the woman and cried, "Mom! Don't die! Don't leave me!"
However, not long after, the girl's little body shook violently, and she looked around with tear-filled eyes. She saw the crowd approaching the mother and daughter. The eyes were full of excitement, and some people even licked her. The lips were raised, like hungry wolves choosing people to devour.
The little girl hugged the woman tighter, "Don't eat my mother, don't eat my mother."
"Little guy, your mother is dead. With her, we can travel hundreds of miles. Maybe after a few hundred miles, we can find a water source and an oasis."
"Yes, we never touched your mother when she was alive, but now that she is dead, please make some contribution to us."
"Yes, if we survive, we will build a shrine for your mother."
"No, no, you can't touch my mother." The little girl shook her head and said.
"You bastard, do you want to kill us?"
"Yes! I carried this oil bottle along the way, and even gave her the little food left. I thought I'd kill her too."
"Kill her. With her, we have one more hope of survival."
The little girl's eyes were full of fear, and a chill came into her heart. Looking at the familiar faces, she felt nothing but terror at this moment.
"No
It can kill people. Once this hole is opened, we will not be able to get out. "At this time, an old man who looked a bit old said.
"Clan leader, what should we do?"
"Yes, this child is a burden even if he is alive. We don't have much dry food left."
The old man took two steps forward, rubbed the girl's head, and said slowly, "My child, get out of the way. They will all remember your mother in the future."
The little girl looked at the old man with tears in her eyes and shook her head while crying.
"Hey..." The old man sighed.
Then he stood up straight and looked at everyone around him, "Let her spend more time with her mother."
"Clan leader! After a while, the blood will solidify, we..."
"shut up!"
Others wanted to say more, but the old man shouted angrily, "Don't forget that we are human beings because of these things! We are human beings! We are not demons."
"ah...."
After the old man finished speaking, someone in the crowd suddenly roared. When everyone stepped aside, they saw a young man about eighteen or nineteen years old covering his head and yelling like crazy.
"I can't stand it anymore, I can't stand it anymore! Why! Why are we like this! Why!"
These hundreds of people originally lived in a place with beautiful scenery, surrounded by mountains and rivers. There were many villages there, and the folk customs were extremely simple. There were no predators, no floods, or droughts like now. Although their lives were not very prosperous, But at least I don't have to worry about food and clothing.
But the good times came to an abrupt end a few months ago.
Two immortal cultivators suddenly started fighting near their village. Fire rain fell from the sky, and the originally beautiful place turned into a sea of fire.
After the two immortal cultivators left, the surviving villagers found that their village had been completely burned to the ground. At the same time, not only their place, but thousands of miles around were turned into scorched earth.
The place they lived in was no longer suitable for survival, so the survivors packed up the few dry foods they had left and embarked on a journey to escape.
To the immortal cultivators, a land of thousands of miles is just a breath away, but to these mortals who can only walk on their own feet, it is as far away as the heavenly journey.
In the past few months, they had run out of dry food, but the oasis they wanted to find was still far away. In desperation, they could only eat the corpses of their dead companions. This is neither evil nor good, it is just a coercion. The last resort is the survival instinct hidden in everyone's heart.
"Damn immortal cultivators! Why do they exist in this world? Why is there no order?" Someone in the crowd was infected by the young man and shouted the same.
Recalling the scene of their home being burned to the ground, everyone present could not help but shiver in their hearts, but soon the pair of dim eyes were filled with hatred, hatred for the immortal cultivators.
Time passed quickly, and not long after, someone finally couldn't bear the hunger in his belly, grabbed the little girl's collar, picked her up, and threw her aside.
"Get away from me. If you want to die, die quickly. Don't try to kill us."
Seeing that the little girl had escaped from the body, everyone's eyes immediately lit up and they rushed towards the body of the woman who had been dead for a long time.
"No! Don't eat my mother..."
"Look! Look what that is!"
At this critical moment, someone in the crowd suddenly shouted loudly.
Everyone looked in the direction the man pointed and saw two figures in robes walking slowly in the distance.
The two men hid their bodies in their hoods, lowered their heads, and could not see their faces clearly. However, these were not the important points. The important point was that there were large tracts of grass and trees growing behind where the two men passed. The earth was instantly covered with earthy yellow, replaced by intoxicating green.
The sky is no longer hazy, the air is no longer hot and humid, the cold and moist wind sweeps past, and crystal raindrops fall.
The sound of ticking came, and the rain soon moistened the entire land and formed flowing rivers.
Hundreds of people raised their hands at the same time and looked up at the sky. Their mouths were wide open, and they greedily followed the rain falling from high altitude. Their dry skin was moisturized, and tears mixed with the rain rolled down their cheeks.
The old man did not catch the rain like others, and his originally gray eyes lit up again. Looking at the two figures getting closer, a simple and gratifying smile appeared on his face.
The two men wearing hoods walked up to these people and passed by as if they were nothing. The grass and trees grew miraculously behind them, as if they were the gods of the earth, coming to comfort the people on this land. generally.
The old man immediately knelt down, kowtowed to the two men, and shouted, "Thank you, Master Immortal."
At the same time, other villagers also imitated the old man, knelt down and kowtowed to the two people who were gradually walking away, and shouted in unison, "Thank you, Master Immortal."
The villagers smiled again and became their original simple appearance again, as if the rainwater had flowed into their hearts and washed away all the filth and all the sins.
The rain was still falling, but it was no longer as heavy as before.
The little girl buried her mother with the help of many villagers, kowtowed several times in front of the tombstone and then stood up.
He walked to the old man's side, took the old man's hand, and whispered softly, "Grandpa Patriarch, are those two immortal cultivators?"
The old man responded with a smile, "Yes, he is still a very powerful immortal cultivator."
The little girl's face was full of confusion. She looked up at the old man's face and said, "Aren't all immortal cultivators bad guys?"
"Hehehe, there is no absolute badness in the world, and there is no absolute evil. Maybe the two immortal cultivators who destroyed our village are also kind in nature, but they were just forced to do so because of the situation. Just like us, there was no food along the way. To satisfy our hunger, we ate the flesh of our companions. At that time, we just wanted to survive. Do you think this is evil?"
The little girl tilted her head, as if she didn't understand what the old man said, and asked, "Grandpa Patriarch, do you mean that there are many good people among immortal cultivators?"
The old man nodded slightly without comment.
"Then I will become an immortal cultivator, become such a powerful person, and help many mortals who are in trouble."
The old man smiled faintly, pulled the little girl away, and heard the faint voice ringing around them.
"Silly boy, it's not that simple to cultivate immortality. It's so painful for you and me to live in these hundreds of years, let alone thousands of years."
